Does anyone remember if T2A era deep sea serpents are supposed to make leather?

[Jack]

Some patch notes from 1999, not sure how many apply here:


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[*]<b>Fishing:</b>
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• All special items found from fishing can only be found in deep water.
  
• Other than boots, special items such as treasure maps, SOS's, and magical fish are more rare.
  
• When fish aren't biting, skill doesn't increase.
  
• If you are hidden, fishing will now unhide you.
  

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[*]<b>Fishing</b>

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• Fishing has received a major overhaul. There are yet more changes planned for fishing in future updates.
  
• Based on your skill level, you now have a chance of pulling up the following (listed in increasing difficulty order)
  
  • • One of any of several types of boots
      
    • Fish, as always
      
    • Magical fish, which can boost stamina, strength, intelligence, or dexterity.
      
    • Treasure maps
      
    • Messages in bottles
      
    • Sea serpents (on failure)
      
    • Deep sea serpents (on failure, and if deep in the ocean)
      
• Fishing for sunken treasure:
  
  • • Double-clicking on a message in a bottle will extract a waterstained SOS.
      
    • The SOS will have sextant coordinates on it which will be somewhere in the ocean.
      
    • Fishing at the location given will try to recover the sunken treasure, as long as the SOS is at the top level of your backpack. You may recover bones, artifacts from the sunken ship, or the treasure itself.
      
    • You can keep fishing until you get the treasure, at which point the message disappears.
      

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[*]<b>Sea Serpents:</b>
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• Sea Serpents can only be found in really deep water.
  
• A small percentage of Sea Serpents will be Deep-Sea Serpents.
  
• Sea Serpents will return to deep water after 5 minutes if not attacked.
  
• Sea Serpents will now immediately attack the fisherman that brought them from the deep.
  

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You will once again be able to fish up magic fish and boots from shore.

Post UO:R

Fishing

• Fishermen at over 80 skill will have a chance to pull up a sea serpent regardless of whether they succeed or fail at fishing when in deep sea.
  
• Every time you successfully fish up a treasure map or SOS bottle a sea serpent will surface and attack. The treasure map or SOS bottle will be on the serpents corpse. Sea serpents that are pulled up through normal fishing that did not result in a treasure map or SOS bottle will not have these items on them. Only the sea serpents that are pulled up because of a treasure map or SOS bottle will have them on their corpse.